Completed meetings and events 2013-2014

Wed 25th June 2014 GUEST EVENING - BBQ (No Meeting at Baberton)

Venue details will be announced at an appropriate Club meeting

Wed 18th June 2014 Club Assembly

Plans for the new Rotary Year 2014-2015 are confirmed read more...

Wed 11th June 2014 Joint Council Meeting

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Sun 8th June 2014 Riding for the Disabled Balerno - Open Day

Our Club will be well represented at this annual event. We have been active supporters of RDA for several years.

Wed 4th June 2014 Social Evening

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Wed 28th May 2014 'History of Medicine in Currie Parish', Peter McGavigan

Peter is a member of our Club read more...

Sat 24th May 2014 Bucket Collection in aid of RNLI

Three or four of our Club members will be collecting at Tesco, Hermiston Gate, as part of this event in aid of RNLI

Wed 21st May 2014 SCATTER WEEK - NO MEETING of our Club

Our Club members visit other Rotary Clubs in our District

Tue 20th May 2014 Primary Schools Quiz

Hosted by Dean Park Primary School, Balerno, and organised jointly by the Rotary Club of Braids and our own Club

Wed 14th May 2014 'Chogoria Project' by teachers & pupils from Currie High School AND the Garden project we are supporting by the head teacher and a parent from Nether Currie Primary

Our club supports two local school projects read more...

Wed 7th May 2014 Business Meeting - Old/New Committees

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Wed 30th April 2014 GUEST EVENING - Speaker - Harry Morgan

Guest Evening 6.30 for 7.00 read more...

Wed 23rd April 2014 GUEST EVENING 'Ratho Byres Forge', Shona Johnson

For contemporary metalwork and innovative sculpture, visit The Ratho Byres Forge website.
www.rathobyresforge.co.uk read more...

Fri 18th April 2014 Childrens Craft Fair

12 noon - 3 pm, The Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh

Wed 16th April 2014 'Me, The TRF & You', Allan Maclaughlan RIBI Foundation Committee Chairman

The Rotary Foundation is the subject of Allan's talk. He, of course, is a member of Currie Balerno read more...

Fri 11th April 2014 Childrens Craft Fair

12 noon - 3 pm, The Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh

Wed 9th April 2014 Council Meeting. Meeting venue changed for this one week

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Wed 2nd April 2014 'The Life and Times of Jim Leishman MBE Provost of Fife', Jim Leishman

Jim Leishman, MBE, Councillor, Provost of Fife Council and well known and respected footballer and football manager. read more...

Fri 28th March 2014 Childrens Craft Fair

12 noon - 3 pm, The Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh

Wed 26th March 2014 'Working in Cathedrals: Lighting Up the Spaces', Ian Campbell

- Presentation to Leah McBeath to help further her career in Taekwondo
- Our speaker, Ian, is a member of our Club and soon to be President for a year.... read more...

Wed 19th March 2014 'New Member Talk', Graham Low

....an insight into a very interesting career....and thanks to Graham for permission to use some of the images from his talk read more...

Wed 12th March 2014 GUEST EVENING - 'Joint Replacement - Heavy Metal', Colin Howie.

Our speaker was Mr Colin Howie, MB ChB, FRCS(Ed), FRCS (Glas), FRCS (Ed) (Orth), current President of the British Orthopaedic Association read more...

Sun 9th March 2014 Young Musician of the Year – Grand Final at Heriot Watt University James Watt Centre – Competition starts 2.00 pm

The District 1020 final of the competition will, for the first time, be held in the James Watt Centre at Heriot Watt University hosted by the Rotary Club of Currie Balerno read more...

Wed 5th March 2014 AGM & Business Meeting

Our Annual General Meeting plus a routine Business Meeting

Wed 26th February 2014 Speaker - Steve Chapman, Principal, Heriot Watt University

PROFESSOR STEVE CHAPMAN, PRINCIPAL AND VICE-CHANCELLOR, HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY read more...

Wed 19th February 2014 'Young Musician of the Year' Area Final at Heriot Watt University

The competition will be held in Lecture Room 4 at Heriot Watt University

Mon 17th February 2014 Childrens Craft Fair

12 noon - 3 pm, The Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh

Wed 12th February 2014 GUEST EVENING - Valentine's Day Dinner.

Welcoming Pearl McCabe to our special evening - 'Yes, Dear. How the genders do or do not communicate' read more...

Wed 5th February 2014 COUNCIL Meeting

Wed 29th January 2014 GUEST EVENING - 'A Celebration of Robert Burns'

Our photo shows chairman for the evening Robert Menzies enjoying music and songs from Roy Cook and Jim Goodbrand read more...

Fri 24th January 2014 Young Musician of the Year 2014, Club Competition

The first part of this year's Young Musician competition - the Student's Union, Heriot Watt University

Wed 22nd January 2014 'The Turing Trust' update, James Turing

Photos show President Roy and James with Abi and Eilidh and a typical Ghanaian Chop Bar read more...

Wed 15th January 2014 Business meeting (change of time and location - please click on small arrow in this box)

Members please note that this meeting starts at 18.45 and is being held at Ratho Park Golf Club

Wed 8th January 2014 GUEST EVENING - St Giles', Maurice McIlwrick

A talk on St Giles' Cathedral from Maurice McIlwrick read more...

Wed 1st January 2014 NO MEETING - Happy New Year

The second of the two weeks over the festive period when we have no meetings

Wed 25th December 2013 NO MEETING - Merry Christmas

The first of the two weeks over the festive period when we have no meetings

Wed 18th December 2013 Christmas GUEST EVENING

7 pm for 7.30 pm. Please note this is not taking place at our usual meeting venue

Mon 16th December 2013 - Tue 24th December 2013 Gift Wrapping Service at The Gyle Shopping Centre

Our gift wrapping service at The Gyle Shopping Centre is always much in demand, particularly as Christmas Day approaches. The times are:
Mon 16th to Wed 18th - 9.30am to 6pm
Thurs 19th to Mon 23rd - 9.30am to 9pm
Christmas Eve - 9.30am to 3.30pm

Thu 12th December 2013 - Sun 15th December 2013 Our Annual Fundraising Collection at The Gyle Shopping Centre

Thanks once again to The Gyle Shopping Centre for allowing us to fund-raise at Christmas
Thanks to Peter Cowlishaw for the photos

Wed 11th December 2013 'Air Traffic Control', Phil Barnes

We welcome a new member read more...

Wed 11th December 2013 Council Meeting (this meeting conducted via email)

Wed 4th December 2013 'Geology', Stuart Munro

The use of a slide from the presentation by kind permission of Stuart Munro and the photos of Threipmuir by Andrew Clark read more...
Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

Wed 27th November 2013 '3D Printing of Organs', Dr Will Shu

The image is a ORDbot Quantum 3D Printer read more...

Tue 26th November 2013 Primary School Quiz 2013

Held this Year at Dean Park Primary School, Balerno

Wed 20th November 2013 'Wine', Malcolm Ogilvie

Wine Talk, Tasting and Tapas read more...

Wed 13th November 2013 'The Enigma Machine', T Stevenson

This image has been released into the public domain by its author, Sperling. This applies worldwide.
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Wed 6th November 2013 Business Meeting & SGM

Our annual Special General Meeting forms part of this evening's agenda

Wed 30th October 2013 GUEST EVENING - 'Bowling'

Thanks to Peter Cowlishaw for the photo of Peter McGavigan entitled 'Shall I put a clockwise spin on this one?' read more...
 This image has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

Wed 23rd October 2013 'George Bogle and Tibet', David Syme

The image shows George Bogle meeting the Panchen Lama at the Tashilhunpo Monastry, Shigatse read more...
Image file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.

Wed 16th October 2013 'National Mining Museum Scotland', Don Mockett

Don Mockett, National Mining Museum Scotland, Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange

Image file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. read more...
Thanks to Christopher Baker for his kind permission to use this image

Wed 9th October 2013 'Scottish National Portrait Gallery', Christopher Baker, Director

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1JD read more...

Wed 2nd October 2013 Council Meeting

Wed 25th September 2013 'Club Visioning', Keith Best

Keith Best is a past District 1020 Governor read more...
Image by Currie Balerno Rotary Club IG

Wed 18th September 2013 'Harlaw Hydro', Simon Dormer

Simon Dormer is a director of Harlaw Hydro Ltd. read more...

Wed 11th September 2013 Business Meeting and District Quiz

Currie Balerno meets Edinburgh Park Rotary Club in the next round of the District Quiz immediately after the Club meeting

Wed 4th September 2013 Multimedia Quiz hosted by Edinburgh Park Rotary Club

No Club meeting at Baberton GC this week. We will be at the Novotel, Hermiston Gate, venue for meetings of Edinburgh Park Rotary Club. The quiz starts at 7pm

Wed 28th August 2013 'Youth Vision', Sara Beauregard

This Club meeting was held at Tanners, Juniper Green read more...

Wed 21st August 2013 Visit of District 1020 Governor Kate Keter

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Wed 14th August 2013 'New Member Chat' from Andrew Clark

The third in our series of 'new member chats'. An interesting insight into Andrew's earlier career read more...

Fri 9th August 2013 Childrens Craft Fair

12 noon - 3 pm, The Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh

Wed 7th August 2013 'Quiz Night', Derek Douglas

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Fri 2nd August 2013 Childrens Craft Fair

12 noon - 3 pm, The Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh

Wed 31st July 2013 GUEST EVENING - 'Rio Carnival', Doug Marr

Doug very kindly supplied his photographs
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Fri 26th July 2013 Childrens Craft Fair

12 noon - 3 pm, The Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh

Wed 24th July 2013 'New Member Chat' from Henrik Nahler

The second of our 'new member chats'....... read more...

Fri 19th July 2013 Childrens Craft Fair

12 noon - 3 pm, The Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh

Wed 17th July 2013 'The Institute of Advanced Motorists (Edinburgh)', George Vine

More information....Read on read more...

Fri 12th July 2013 Childrens Craft Fair

12 noon - 3 pm, The Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh

Wed 10th July 2013 'Scottish Owl Centre' talk and demonstration, Rod Angus

The meeting report gives links to the Owl Centre website and to a video featuring Tomsk, the owl read more...

Fri 5th July 2013 Childrens Craft Fair

12 noon - 3 pm, The Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh

Wed 3rd July 2013 'New Member Chat' from Peter Wilson

Our photo shows President Roy Stirrat with Naveen Ramdeehul who was welcomed as a new member of our Club read more...
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